Citation:

PANGAEA.405548

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Related to:

WOCE (2002): World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Global Data, Version 3.0. WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report, Southampton, UK; published by U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, 180/02, DVD-ROM

Further details:

Hansen, Donald V; Poulain, Pierre-Marie (1996): Quality control and interpolations of WOCE-TOGA drifter data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13(4), 900-909, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1996)013%3C0900:QCAIOW%3E2.0.CO;2

Project(s):

World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 42.062500 * Median Longitude: -66.569071 * South-bound Latitude: 41.966000 * West-bound Longitude: -66.641000 * North-bound Latitude: 42.161000 * East-bound Longitude: -66.461000

Date/Time Start: 1998-05-19T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-05-22T18:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, water: 0 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 0 m

Event(s):

SVP_9423747 (WMO44529) * Latitude: 41.966000 * Longitude: -66.465000 * Date/Time Start: 1998-05-19T12:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1998-05-22T18:00:00 * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: * Method/Device: Drifter, longterm (LD)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Method/Device	Comment
1	DATE/TIME	Date/Time			Geocode
2	LATITUDE	Latitude			Geocode
3	LONGITUDE	Longitude			Geocode
4	DEPTH, water	Depth water	m		Geocode
5	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
6	Current velocity, east-west	Cur vel U	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
7	Current velocity, north-south	Cur vel V	cm/s	Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
8	Latitude, error	Latitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
9	Longitude, error	Longitude e		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)
10	Code	Code		Buoy, drifting (BUOY_DRIFT)	Drogue, off=0/on=1

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Size:

80 data points

Data

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1 Date/Time	2 Latitude	3 Longitude	5 Temp [°C]	6 Cur vel U [cm/s]	7 Cur vel V [cm/s]	8 Latitude e	9 Longitude e	10 Code
1998-05-19T12:00	42.080	-66.504	7.263			0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-05-19T18:00	42.006	-66.616	7.358	-23.85	5.15	0.0000	0.0001	1
1998-05-20T00:00	42.100	-66.629	7.206	0.49	3.69	0.0001	0.0005	0
1998-05-20T06:00	42.020	-66.613	7.123	0.49	-1.88	0.0001	0.0002	0
1998-05-20T12:00	42.093	-66.626	7.097	-0.69	1.74	0.0000	0.0001	0
1998-05-20T18:00	42.027	-66.617	7.305	-2.85	17.60	0.0001	0.0003	0
1998-05-21T00:00	42.161	-66.641	7.356	15.49	4.36	0.0000	0.0000	0
1998-05-21T06:00	42.044	-66.536	7.029	12.58	-10.23	0.0000	0.0002	0
1998-05-21T12:00	42.121	-66.576	6.903	3.93	-4.41	0.0000	0.0001	0
1998-05-21T18:00	42.026	-66.516	7.029	-2.35	4.53	0.0000	0.0000	0
1998-05-22T00:00	42.139	-66.588	6.865	10.40	-1.80	0.0000	0.0001	0
1998-05-22T06:00	42.019	-66.461	6.603	1.72	-16.96	0.0000	0.0001	0
1998-05-22T12:00	42.073	-66.579	6.746	-0.62	-13.78	0.0000	0.0000	0
1998-05-22T18:00	41.966	-66.465	6.760			0.0000	0.0000	0